The interior of a grand cathedral features ornate columns, intricate carvings, and a high, domed ceiling. The space is dimly lit, with light streaming in from a window at the far end. The image is in black and white.

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Vue intérieure de la Basilique Saint Pierre

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British Photographer · 1813–1877

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James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 19fa7a1a-36d0-4faf-b3ae-6c344abb3bbd

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View of the interior of St. Peter's Basilica from the nave on the left side. Several wooden benches are arranged in a square formation in the nave, and the large ciborium by Gian Lorenzo Bernini known as St. Peter's Baldachin is visible beneath the dome at the crossing, where the nave and the transept meet.

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